Automatic addition of network neighbours contacts in the main user interface (using the Bonjour/ZeroConf protocol)

Separate call window

Desktop wide notifications

Connection quality meter in the statusbar

Message Waiting Indications Support: Ekiga can tell you how many Voice Mails are waiting

Easy to use short-cuts

Easy account selection when dialing for a contact: auto-completion

Call Version 4.0

Call Hold: This effectively pauses Video & Audio transmission

Call Transfer: You can transfer the remote user to another user

Call Forwarding on No Answer, on Busy, Always: This allows you to conﬁgure Ekiga to forward incoming calls to a speciﬁed user

Message Waiting Indications Support

Dialpad: This allow you to dial numbers using a graphical alphanumeric keypad

DTMFs Support: This feature is necessary when using services asking you to dial numbers

Calls History: This is a convenient way about all outgoing and incoming calls

Call Monitoring: Statistics about the network traffic caused by Ekiga are displayed in the status bar

Call Auto-Answer: Automatically answer all incoming calls

Enum Support: Enum is a standard method to provide a unified numbering system between the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and various VoIP providers. It is officially deployed country wide

Audio Version 4.0

Wideband Codec Support: HD sound quality

Dynamic Threshold Algorithm for Silence Detection

Echo Cancellation

Dynamic Jitter Buffer

13 audio codecs supported; including G.711 for high interoperability and HD sound (G.722, G.722.1 and SILK)

Video Version 4.0

High Framerate support (up to 30 fps)

Configurable Resolution, up to DVD quality (from 176x144 to 704x576)

Full-Screen Video

Support for hardware rendering (DirectX under Windows, XVideo under GNU/Linux)

Quality of images Versus Speed (framerate) slider

6 video codecs supported; including the best free codec (Theora) and state of art video codec (H.264)

Text chat Version 4.0

Instant Messaging with built-in smiley support (SIP)

Graphical selection of smiley for easy inclusion in text message

Presence display: display your peer chat status

Contacts Version 4.0

Presence Status with Custom Message (SIP): The status of your contacts are displayed in the main User Interface with a custom message, and you can set your own Status (Online, Away, Busy) with a custom message

Advanced Addressbook: The Address Book is a feature which allows you to ﬁnd users to call and/or to save locally your list of persons that you call on a regular basis

Remote Address Book Support: Ekiga can load the list of users from a remote LDAP directory (with authentification)

Devices Version 4.0

Hotplug: Automatic detection of hotplugging of audio devices and video devices on Linux (ALSA and V4L1/2)

Devices Auto-Detection

Sound API: on Windows DirectX, on GNU/Linux OSS and ALSA Compatible Soundcards Support or PulseAudio

Assisted NAT Support (automated STUN support): Ekiga has extensive and improved NAT support. In most of the cases, you do not have any configuration to do.

Gateway/Proxy Support

Integration Version 4.0

Part of the Gnome Desktop

Integration with Novell Evolution: You can share your contacts with the groupware client for Linux, "Novell® Evolution™"

KDE and GNOME Compatibility

Remote LDAP server integration for network address-book integration

State-of-the-art LDAP support (supports authentication)

Interoperability with PBX like Asterisk™

Configuration Version 4.0

Configuration Assistant: The Conﬁguration Assistant is a 8 step-by-step questionnaire that will guide you through all the steps involved in creating the basic conﬁguration you will need to operate Ekiga

Configurable Sound Events: You can customize sounds and select a special sound device for them to play; you're able to have the ring in your Hi-Fi hardware and the call in the headset

In call Instant-Apply Support for Settings

Gnome's GConf and External Configuration support: Ekiga can store its settings in Gnome's GConf application or in a standalone file (e.g. on Windows)